Job 2:13

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

Cross References

Genesis 1:5

God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1:8

God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days.

Ezra 9:3

When I heard this, I tore my garment and my mantle, and pulled hair from my head and beard, and sat appalled.

Nehemiah 1:4

When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Job 3:1

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

Job 4:2

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?

Psalm 77:4

You keep my eyelids from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.

Isaiah 47:1

Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young girls of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Ezekiel 3:15

I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who lived by the river Chebar. And I sat there among them, stunned, for seven days.